| From: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> |
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| To: | abindra(at)u(dot)washington(dot)edu |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Freebsd & autoconf-2.63 |
| Date: | 2009-11-06 06:08:21 |
| Message-ID: | 4AF3BD55.8020605@enterprisedb.com |
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abindra(at)u(dot)washington(dot)edu wrote:
> I downloaded the latest postgresql code via cvs on a FreeBSD 7.2 system.
> When I try to run autoconf on the source it tells me that I need
> autoconf-2.63. However the freeBSD ports only has autoconf-6.62.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestion on how to resolve this? I posted a
> question on the freebsd ports forum but have not had any solutions.
Go to http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/, and download and install a
newer version of autoconf.
You shouldn't actually need to run autoconf even when building from a
CVS checkout, because we keep the generated "configure" file in CVS as
well. Unless you have edited configure.in, you can just do "./configure;
make install"
--
Heikki Linnakangas
EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com
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